That is air supremacy.
Kinda like how the Cubans with the help of the Soviets took over GITMO? Oh wait. Nevermind that Turkey (NATO member) holds the keys for any ship wanting access to global oceans from the Black Sea.
Putin is trying to take back and reform the "old Russia" ... the one that existed before all the areas he's trying to get back had enough of Russia's rule and broke away to have a better way of living. That's the sole reason that NATO was created, to form an allegiance by the close counties to the west of Russia to form a stronger deterrent from future Russian aggression. This video does a good job of explaining some past history.
The Cuban missile crisis isn't really that analogous to what Russia is doing in Ukraine. Russia's goal during the Cuba missile crisis wasn't to "invade and take over" the USA because the USA use to be part of Russia. It was basically a deterrent by Russia during the cold war to help "protect" Cuba and give Russia an advantage to retaliate quicker if the USA ever attacked Russia or Cuba.
Thing is, Putin knows that NATO isn't going to attack Russia, so his invasion into Ukraine isn't really because he feels like NATO is going to attack him - if he actually thinks that then he's delusional and paranoid, which are the base ingredients to make for a true mad-man. NATO would never be an attacker of any country, only a defender against an attack. Putin is invading the Ukraine and any other bordering countries who are not part of NATO because he knows if they ever do join NATO that he will never be able to do a take-over with military force. He's doing it now because he's old, and he thinks this is the only opportunity for him to try and carry out a take-over that he's been thinking about for years, so he's acting it out now. And he has nukes, which he's using as a threat to try and get his way.
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He seems to be eating too many hallucinogenic mushrooms too.
It's just aging. When people reach late 60s early 70s they all start aging like that. The thing is who would be his successor when he pass and how long will he lives.
It's the proper application of combined arms which was part of Blitzkrieg. You can't say armor is a failure when the Russians aren't using it correctly. You're supposed to have infantry in front of the armor and also air support to eliminate short range anti tank weapons. Javelin has a longer range though.
Oh yeah speaking of him, he just posted some video.
Well thought out post like your filter posts.Putin is trying to take back and reform the "old Russia" ... the one that existed before all the areas he's trying to get back had enough of Russia's rule and broke away to have a better way of living. That's the sole reason that NATO was created, to form an allegiance by the close counties to the west of Russia to form a stronger deterrent from future Russian aggression. This video does a good job of explaining some past history.
Thing is, Putin knows that NATO isn't going to attack Russia, so his invasion into Ukraine isn't really because he feels like NATO is going to attack him - if he actually thinks that then he's delusional and paranoid, which are the base ingredients to make for a true mad-man. NATO would never be an attacker of any country, only a defender against an attack. Putin is invading the Ukraine and any other bordering countries who are not part of NATO because he knows if they ever do join NATO that he will never be able to do a take-over with military force. He's doing it now because he's old, and he thinks this is the only opportunity for him to try and carry out a take-over that he's been thinking about for years, so he's acting it out now. And he has nukes, which he's using as a threat to try and get his way.
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the
Putin is trying to take back and reform the "old Russia" ... the one that existed before all the areas he's trying to get back had enough of Russia's rule and broke away to have a better way of living. That's the sole reason that NATO was created, to form an allegiance by the close counties to the west of Russia to form a stronger deterrent from future Russian aggression. This video does a good job of explaining some past history.
The Cuban missile crisis isn't really that analogous to what Russia is doing in Ukraine. Russia's goal during the Cuba missile crisis wasn't to "invade and take over" the USA because the USA use to be part of Russia. It was basically a deterrent by Russia during the cold war to help "protect" Cuba and give Russia an advantage to retaliate quicker if the USA ever attacked Russia or Cuba.
Thing is, Putin knows that NATO isn't going to attack Russia, so his invasion into Ukraine isn't really because he feels like NATO is going to attack him - if he actually thinks that then he's delusional and paranoid, which are the base ingredients to make for a true mad-man. NATO would never be an attacker of any country, only a defender against an attack. Putin is invading the Ukraine and any other bordering countries who are not part of NATO because he knows if they ever do join NATO that he will never be able to do a take-over with military force. He's doing it now because he's old, and he thinks this is the only opportunity for him to try and carry out a take-over that he's been thinking about for years, so he's acting it out now. And he has nukes, which he's using as a threat to try and get his way.
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the
It is ok to box a dangerous animal in a corner if you try to slaughter it, instead of trying to take its cubs away and let it go.
I’m no history expert, but if you go back to when Japan invaded Manchuria, I believe sanctions were applied to Japan by the USA, especially with their access to oil from Indonesia. This would be like boxing the animal. One result of this was Pearl Harbour.
They also seriously miscalculated whether they can keep Hawaii due to it being a former sovereign nation before a coup turned it into a US colony (or state). I wouldn't be surprised their original calculation was the Kingdom of Hawaii would have enough local non white support to turn it into another Manchuria.
I believe the biggest winners of WWII was the bankers. War is massively profitable for bankers. Debt is how money is made and its just about the only thing not taxed. Think on that.
The whole Cuban missile crisis event isn't really analogous in any way except for the fact that some countries feel "threatened" if opposing forces with weapons are too close to a boarder - that stuff has been going on as long as weapons were invented. If some neighbors living in my neighborhood don't seem to like me (ie, I'm "Russia" and my neighbors are "NATO"), and I know they have some weapons in there house located close to me, should I make a surprise attack on them and takeover and kill them because I'm paranoid and think they might do the same to me first? Only a paranoid mad-man would do that.
Dangerous animals need to be controlled ... and exterminated if possible. Dangerous animals get noticed because of their own actions, and Putin is showing all of his true colors right now.
This. He just did not count on the strength of the Ukrainians.. He thought he could bring them into the fold before NATO could organize and "unite". Now he is cooked. He can't posibly win even if he totally trashes Ukrain. Russia will be a third world country as long as he is around. Interesting how long it takes the "people", oligarchs, Generals and his drinking budies to throw him overboard to feed the sharks.
